yes, you have a right to privacy in the library! the mission of public libraries is to afford everyone, in the broadest sense of the word, free access to the products of culture, in the broadest sense of the word—where “free” means both “you don’t have to pay” and “you are left the fuck alone.” 📚

Upset in Ansonia #NutmegSky valley.newhavenindependent.org/2025/11/04/u...

To local grocery stores and restaurants, don’t throw out your overstock! The state of CT passed protections to protect you from any liability on donations. We can have volunteers pick up overstock & donate them to families in need. Write it off both as a loss & donation! Please reach out or email

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

worth noting that the University of Chicago budget cuts mean they are abruptly shutting down their prison education program chicagomaroon.com/48983/viewpo...

The Gleaner writes that the Jamaican ambassador in Washington is coordinating relief efforts. The article also says the NY consulate is coordinating donations in New York. jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead...

PRE-ORDER WEDNESDAY!! ❤️‍🔥 Pre-order the 2nd printing of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social starting Wednesday, 10/29, 3p Eastern USA. www.weherepress.org

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders: 1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month. 2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE? Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social drive.google.com/drive/folder...

One thing I’ve observed in recent wks: it’s important, even for public-facing political education — re: democratic process, civic institutions, etc — to *cite your sources*; citation is a political practice and it acknwldges the value of the resources your work builds upon, + which need support too!

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

Recap of the pedestrian deaths in CT during September (and earlier) that engineers could've chosen to prevent. Drivers have killed 43 pedestrians/cyclists so far this year in Connecticut. www.realhartford.org/2025/10/12/s...

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“What you have accomplished here flies in the face of all the assumptions and stereotypes that have been heaped upon you,” Gov. Pritzker said. "To that I say: Don’t ever stop defying those expectations."

A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

NEW: The FCC under Biden passed rules to make phone calls from prison easier, to help keep people connected to their communities. Trump's FCC has now blocked that change. Phillip Smith, a man incarcerated in North Carolina, reports for Bolts on what this means for people behind bars:

1. The FCC has suspended a rule, schedule to go in effect this year, that would have banned prisons from price gouging on phone calls. Right now, at some jails, a 15-minute phone call can cost over $11. The decision benefits some of Trump's top donors.

"Lety" is hoeing, removing weeds from the lettuce plants in CAs Central Coast. She literally walks miles through the fields every day. She shares, "I'm tired from all the walking. The rows are extremely long. At the end of the day my hands hurt from hoeing." #WeFeedYou

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

Great crowd here in New Haven #nokings

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

Trump pardons John fucking Rowland, former governor of Connecticut. A guy so crooked that after serving time for collecting bribes in office managed to get his ass in jail AGAIN for campaign finance violations. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/trump-pardons-new-york-connecticut-00373462

The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, was fired by Pres. Trump today according to a press statement from @morelle.house.gov. Only the Legislative Branch should make decisions about the hiring & removal of the Librarian of CONGRESS. This needs to be fixed asap.

Lawmakers, Advocates Push To Ease Voting Access for Eligible Incarcerated Individuals ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/05/06/l... cc: @boltsmag.org #Nutmegsky

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Can't let Patriots' Day go by without returning to one of our most loved and controversial lists ever.

Spoke with @leahlitman.bsky.social about two huge religion cases at the Supreme Court that have flown under the radar. The conservative majority looks poised to compel state funding of Catholic schools AND give religious parents a right to veto curricula at public schools. slate.com/news-and-pol...

We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

list of NOAA websites and databases scheduled to be eliminated in the next month www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

Posting this for the umpteenth time.

Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again

NEW: If you paid taxes for 2024, you likely paid $3,707 for weapons and war, from Pentagon contractors to nuclear weapons. That's more than you paid for Medicaid ($1,823), the Department of Education ($787), and the National Institutes of Health ($149) combined. We need to reprioritize. #TaxDay

This is one of the crisis pregnancy centers that harasses and attempts to steal patients from one of our abortion clinics. Make a donation to our fund instead and dedicate it to their awful director, [email protected] www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

SSShokupan (sourdough shokupan, made using Ian Lowe's stiff sweet starter). It's a three-day process to make, with lots of extra effort, but a) it's not sour, which ruins enriched breads, and b) it stays soft for nearly a week. Worth it.

In 2017, the Twitter account @RoguePOTUSStaff built a massive following via unfounded claims of being run by a group of White House insiders leaking info and gossip. This account is now back for round two, and has expanded to Bluesky. www.conspirator0.com/p/the-farce-...

There are now a number of incredible folks from the NEH & state humanities councils who will be looking for jobs. They are humanities leaders, strategists, thinkers. You want them on your team.

So my phone started blowing up last night because guess who's on the banned book list at the naval academy? Yours truly. Go support an author today and buy a book off of this this list... Doesn't even have to be mine. Gift link coming

#NutmegSky Legit Tax Assistance Help avail w/fed+CT taxes from Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) in-person. Drop-off / virtual some places. Eligibility: * Household income < $68,000 * Self-employment biz < $35,000 * No rental income Apptments: booknow.appointment-plus.com/yk0jq0dv/?ut...

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

We have a paper out this morning on the risk of significant damage to Social Security from actions taken by the Trump Administration and DOGE. Here’s a summary 🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

"Library funding draws less than 0.003% of the annual federal budget yet has enormous impact in communities" @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social has a good FAQ about what is happening with/to IMLS; helpful as we decide what to say to our reps, what to put on our signs. www.ala.org/faq-executiv...

"One reason DOGE + Trump may not have immediately gutted the IMLS... is that it is a fantastic tool for the regime as they prepare to celebrate 🇺🇸’s 250th anniversary... [They can] use the IMLS to push out propaganda abt the admin [+] this is an opportunity... to rework the narrative abt libraries"

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today. www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...